The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volumen2Harper Collins, 2004 M06 29 - 1152 páginas C. S. Lewis was a prolific letter writer, and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships, and the progress of his thought. This second of a three-volume collection contains the letters Lewis wrote after his conversion to Christianity, as he began a lifetime of serious writing. Lewis corresponded with many of the twentieth century's major literary figures, including J. R. R. Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers. Here we encounter a surge of letters in response to a new audience of laypeople who wrote to him after the great success of his BBC radio broadcasts during World War II -- talks that would ultimately become his masterwork, Mere Christianity. Volume II begins with C. S. Lewis writing his first major work of literary history, The Allegory of Love, which established him as a scholar with imaginative power. These letters trace his creative journey and recount his new circle of friends, "The Inklings," who meet regularly to share their writing. Tolkien reads aloud chapters of his unfinished The Lord of the Rings, while Lewis shares portions of his first novel, Out of the Silent Planet. Lewis's weekly letters to his brother, Warnie, away serving in the army during World War II, lead him to begin writing his first spiritual work, The Problem of Pain. After the serialization of The Screwtape Letters, the director of religious broadcasting at the BBC approached Lewis and the "Mere Christianity" talks were born. With his new broadcasting career, Lewis was inundated with letters from all over the world. His faithful, thoughtful responses to numerous questions reveal the clarity and wisdom of his theological and intellectual beliefs. Volume II includes Lewis's correspondence with great writers such as Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken, and Dom Bede Griffiths. The letters address many of Lewis's interests -- theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, and children's stories -- as well as reveal his relation ships with close friends and family. But what is apparent throughout this volume is how this quiet bachelor professor in England touched the lives of many through an amazing discipline of personal correspondence. Walter Hooper's insightful notes and compre hensive biographical appendix of the correspon dents make this an irreplaceable reference for those curious about the life and work of one of the most creative minds of the modern era. |
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... Criticism and writing The Allegory of Love. He, Mrs Moore and Maureen Moore had been in their new home, The Kilns, for a year. TO HIS BROTHER (W): [Magdalen College] Oct. 24th 1931 My dear WYour letter from Gibraltar has arrived and my ...
... . There were murmurings of dissent from the other side about the monopoly of philology and the absence from the curriculum of any modern literary criticism. 30 Miss Kathleen Whitty had been Maureen's music teacher when 1931.
... edited the eleven volumes of Ben Jonson's works (1925–52). He was the librarian of the new English faculty library, and a lecturer on textual criticism. and his principles as an examiner are perhaps worth recording. 81 1932.
... criticism ran on the familiar lines 'Ah this is a lovely bit coming now ... what a pity that girl hasn't a really good voice' – in fact I was on the point of saying to myself 'By Jove its a splendid thing–what wouldn't I give to hear it ...
... criticisms on style (in the narrower sense) as on things like confusion, bad taste, unsuccessful jokes, contradictions etc ... criticism. For details of his earlier attempts to tell the story of his conversion see the treatment of The ...